Legal English

An Introduction to the Legal Language and Culture of the United States

Second Edition

Teresa Brostoff and Ann Sinsheimer

Uses problems and exercises to teach students how to read and understand case law and statutes

Exposes students to different subject areas in the law to prepare them for what they will encounter in their LLM or first-year law school classes

Demonstrates techniques for predicting an answer to a legal problem and persuading an audience of a legal perspective

Prepares students and non-American attorneys for the language and culture of American law and law schools

Legal English

An Introduction to the Legal Language and Culture of the United States

Second Edition

Teresa Brostoff and Ann Sinsheimer

Description

This book acquaints readers with the two most important skills-legal research and writing-and approaches each problem and exercise from a different legal subject area. By discussing problem-solving techniques in a wide variety of topics, this book successfully increases student levels in reading and understanding legal documents.